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MANUFACTURED IN R.S.A. P.A VERVAARDIG IN R.S.A. Mrs. N. McCormack (seated at the table) washes the sheets from, her bed in the little handbasin in the “RUB-AND-SCRUB” APPEAL corner of her room and. dries them over Mr. S. Greenbergs heater in his room down the corridor. So \ she. was delighted to hear Laundry a problem from the Mayoress of Jo­ hannesburg (right) that “Meals on W heels” will I start a free laundry service for the aged. And while for the old folk Mrs. Lewis was telling them of the new scheme, Mrs. I. Saintey (left), a “Meals on CLEAN SHEETS for her bed are a serious problem for old Mrs. N. McCor­ W/heels” worker, was dish­ ing up their meal for the mack. She lives alone in a little room without a servant and without day. money for laundry. She can have clean sheets only when she washes them herself in her tiny handbasin. it is to help people like her t that “ Meals on Wheels ” are to j run a free laundry service for Miss Kathleen pensioners—at the suggestion of ! the Mayoress of Johannesburg, Brabazon dies j Mrs. Doris Lewis. Even taking sheets off a bed at 84 isn’t easy when you're old, slow . Miss Kathleen Brabazon, the { and alone. And not even the fit- first receiver of the Gold Medal ) test young housewife could wash Award of the Johannesburg Col­ j sheets in a handbasin without a lege of Education, died at the age struggle. of 84 at the Johannesburg General Hospital this week. ONCE A WEEK Then, Mss. McCormack has ^ still to dry the sheets—over a Miss Brabazon, a niece of the But there are ■women who j Irish poetess, Susan Mitchell, was badly need it, too. j heater in a friend’s room. “I'm a pioneer in creating libraries at The free “rub-and-scrub” -ser­ 1 lucky,” she says. “It’s a lovely Johannesburg Government vice will have a pool of bed linen big heater.” Washing would be : schools. and will exchange clean sheets stolen before it was dry if she | She was born in Ireland in for soiled once a week. But 1885 and came to South Africa in before it can start, more than i hu»g it in the busy yard outside 1921 with an M.A. degree and a ] R1 000 is needed. : her room. Silver Medal from Trinity College The Mayoress has launched an A free laundry service “would ! in Dublin. ! appeal for funds to start the ser­ vice. A collection will be taken be a very big uplift for me,” she She taught English for 10 years tomorrow night at the football ; said seriously. "I do like a clean each at Jeppe Girls' High School match between Highlands North i bed.” and Parktown Girls’ High School. ! and Durban Spurs at the Rand During her career at Jeppe, Miss Washing is a problem for all Stadium. Other cheques may be old people living alone. Servants Brabazon started the school’s sent to “Meals on Wheels library by putting up bookshelves may take R12 a month out of a Laundry Service.” Mayor's Office. R32 pension. Dishonesty may cost at the back of the school hall. ; City Hall, or to Box 1049, Johanl them more. During the war, when male There are many frail old people teachers were few', she taught at for whom bed linen is just Jeppe High School for Boys. She 1 too much trouble. They then taught at the Speech Ther- do without it. They sleep, like ! apy Department with Miss. Muriel neat, clean old Mr. Jackson, on " i Alexander. 9 ] grey - with - dirt * blankets and She retired from her post at brown-with-age pillows. Old men Forest High School in 1935, but are the ones who usually have continued to teach temporarily at j most difficulty with washing. various schools. ^ _ ' 5 r n R «««» &®smse8smsgmsmxsaKm Mr S Farah, secretary of the Transvaal Association of Coloured Teachers, presents a cheque to the Mayor of Johannesburg, Mr. Patrick Lewis, for victims of the Boland Disaster Fund. With them is Mr. E. Eachells, an executive member of the association, which has now contributed R2 425 to the fund.

Clean sheets appeal: good response AN appeal by Mrs. Doris R2000 for Lewis, the Mayoress of Johannesburg, has already brought in R1013 for a laundry service for the paraplegic aged. This is about one-third of the money needed to start a service which will bring centre clean sheets to Johannes­ burg’s old people every MR. NEIL GILLIS, chair­ week. man of the Southern Trans­ “Meals on Wheels” will vaal region of the Para­ run the service which will plegic Games Association, have a pool of bed linen and today gave R2 000 towards each week will exchange the building of the South clean sheets for soiled ones. African Mandeville Centre About 200 old people need for the disabled. the service. Before receiving the gift at a ceremony in the Johan­ Johannesburg citizens have nesburg City Hall, Mr. sent in donations totalling Ernest Erling, president of R890 in the past week. the South African Mande­ Another R223 was collected ville Centre, showed the at a football match on Fri­ Mayor, Mr. Patrick Lewis, day. and Mr. Gillis, the plans for “Thank you for a wonder­ the R100 000 project. ful response,” said Mrs. The R2 000 given by the Lewis. Southern Transvaal region She is depending on pub­ of the Paraplegic Games lic donations to raise Association is to go towards enough money to start the the building of the club­ laundry service. house. “We will need at least R3 000,” she said. g r a f t ______Mrs. Karin Kiesling, a window-dresser at a Johannesburg departmental store, admires a statue of Dr. Chris Barnard sculptured by the Spaniard Juan de Alvos. The statue is one of the items on exhibition in the city. GLITTERING TRIBUTE TO

BARNARD ""I\ o - TROPHIES, GIFTS aiid medals given to Prof. Christiaan Barnard from colleagues and admirers all over the world, will he shown in the basement of a large departmental store in Johannesburg from today. The exhibition was opened ' yesterday by the Mayor of Johannesburg, Mr. Patrick Lewis. It is being held by the Chris Barnard Fund for Research in Heart Disease, in collaboration with the store and two pharma- j ceutical laboratories. Among the items shown a re , Doctorates of Science awarded by several American universities! and the Pahlavi University o f1 Iran. Also on display are medal- j lions from medical societies, j including the South African j Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Albert Einstein College of Brazil, the New York Cardiologi­ cal Society, and the Pasteur Institute of France. PROMINENT A piece of the tree of Hippocrates awarded by Prof. Thomas Doxiadis of the Athens University Medical Faculty, and the Gold Medallion of Hippo­ crates awarded Dr. Barnard in France, are prominently dis­ played. There are also valuable gifts from grateful parents of Dr. Barnard’s child patients, as tvell j as the keys and the honorary citizenship of various cities. Mrs. M. E. Poolton, organizer of the Chris Barnard Fund, says Dr. Barnard believes his heart j transplant team deserves these ; trophies as much as he, and that | he has accepted the gifts for all | ‘ its members. j The exhibition was first held in | ! Cape Town in May, 1969. It was! then taken to Beaufort West, Dr. j Barnard’s home town, and to ! Pretoria during the Medical Samn S ' m i ? : snaredfiS/Z/pOj nis 1 . slice o f bread

The Mayor-elect of Johannesburg, Mr. Sam Moss, at his Observatory home with his wife and three sons (left to right) Stafford, Hilliard and Russel, recently. NOW CITY GIVES HIM THE JOB OF FIRST CITIZEN ships in Mayfair, is proud that H Bv a Staff Reporter he once scored the highest i THE boys squatter] on the marks among English children pavement lining a humble Hard days in the Transvaal for an Afri- 1 Mavfair Street. They talker] kaans examination. This was in : the high school entrance exami- ,1 in both English and Afri­ nation before the w-ar. | kaans and took bites in turn He said he had never ceased from a slice of bread pro­ in humble to wonder at the Afrikaners’ vided bv the. one called Sam. economic progress or to admire Bread obtained outside nor­ their interest in education mal meal times was a luxury he “They have always attached liked to share with his friends, Mayfair great importance to learning for it was the time of the great because they knew that they a depression and bellies were Although always keen to be a could survive only through seldom comfortably filled. lawyer, Mr. Moss was deviated education.” As they talked of the things by family persuasion into the He believed, he added, that j small boys always talk about, pharmaceutical business. He and bilingualism was essential for a '< they did not dream that Sam his brother became pharmacists man in public life. He was glad ; was to become first citizen of and their sister kept to tradition that he could share the Afnka- , their city. Nor did they think by marrying a member of the ners’ culture and enjoy their about race; and they spoke in trade. company as a result of his 1 both tongues, for the children of Mr. Moss gave up his retail ability to speak hoth languages. the two language groups still pharmacy in the mid-fifties, His philosophy, he said, was: went to school together and went on a trip to Europe then to put as much back into life a s ; played unselfconsciously to­ came back to marry Miss Shirley he got out of it. gether in those far-off days. Bloom in 1956. Four years later he started his own pharmaceuti­ GENEROSITY ORDINARY CHAP cal packaging business. The boy who was destined for Although born to hard times “It’s almost a religion with distinction is now 47-year-old in Johannesburg, he has had a me, and I find that being a city Mr. Samuel Moss, Mayor-elect of life-long love affair with the city councillor is one of the best Johannesburg. and has always had his home ways of enabling me to put here. something back by serving the In his oak-panelled office at community to the best of my • the City Hall, a far cry from LOVES THE CITY that humble Mayfair street, Mr. ability.” Moss told me: “ Life was hard in "I believe,” he said, "that if Asked what had been the those days but the years since you are alive to all that life has outstanding impression of his have been good to me. Now here to give you — by that I mean year as Deputy Mayor, Mr. Moss am I, an ordinary chap, about to that if you a,re not concerned said it was the legendary become the Mayor of Johannes­ only with the’ daily grind — if generosity of Johannesburg. burg. you are responsive to interests “Until I became Deputy “ That’s the wonderful thing beyond your normal scope, you Mayor, I never realized how about this city. You don’t have will find Johannesburg a fertile much that generosity encom- j to he wealthy or to have had field. It offers a kaleidoscope of passed. And here I’m speaking family here from the year dot different activities and no other not only of generosity with before you can become. Mayor. South African city can compare money, but also of the extent to Mr. Moss was born on July 20, with it. which people give of themselves 1922, when his parents were “We may not have the natural and their time for the benefit of Ttving in Mayfair’s College beauty of a city like. Cape Town, others. Street. He attended the local but the absence of beauty is “There are hundreds of them John Ware School and, like compensated for by the multi­ — looking after the sick, the ^ other boys from the area, swam faceted character of Johannes­ handicapped, the orphaned, the ij in the Blue Dam and played on burg. A life force seems to be indigent, the aged and many E the mine dumps. concentrated here. others. k “You seldom hear or read SACRIFICES HELP NON WHITES about them, but when you mee! Although the parents of Mr. “Contrary to general belief, them and talk to them, as it was Moss and his chums struggled to people’s interests here are not often my privilege as Deputy make ends meet, they made confined to business and profes­ Mayor to do, you realize how heavy sacrifices to send their sional activities. Johannesburg much time they must spend children to good schools, hoping people have a wide outlook on helping others, without a that the. comforts and prosperity life and are interested in more thought for themselves, and you which had eluded them would than just making money.” feel very humble and small. come to the young ones through Like his predecessor, Mr. Here is altruism in the true education. Patrick Lewis, Mr. Moss has a sense of the word." Mr. Moss went to Jeppe High sincere sympathy for the non- School from 1935 to 1939 — five White races. This manifested QUICK-CHANGING extremely happy years — matri­ itself at school when his interest culating there just after the war During his time as Deputy broke out. He was a contempar- in non-Europeans — and politics Mayor, Mr. Moss and his wife — was aroused by his study of have had all too little time with ary of Athol Rowan and George South African history. Fullerton at a time when Jeppe Now, as chairman of the City their three young sons, Hilliard, High produced more Springbok Council’s Non-European Affairs Russel and Stafford. cricketers than it did mayors. “Shirley and I were always Young Samuel Moss was no Committee, he can strive more rushing in to change for one great sportsman, although he than ever for the betterment of the non-Whites’ lot. function or another, and once represented his house at cricket Speaking of Soweto, the one of the lads complained that and rugby. His forte was sprawling African residential the only word he ever heard debating, and he was once these days was ‘Goodbye’.” runner-up for the school’s Best complex that has been described by Mr. Lewis as “a city within a The boys are destined to see Speaker of the Year award. even less of their parents in the He liked acting, too. and city,” Mr. Moss said: “The p e o p 1 e there belong to coming year, for the No. 1 civic appeared in several of the post in Johannesburg has be­ school’s Shakespearian produc­ Johannesburg. "We now have second and come as taxing and demanding tions. His brief career on the as it is prestigious. boards ended in his matric year third generation Africans who know only this city as their Mr. Moss takes office on with an appearance as Brutus in March 3 after formal election by “ Julius Caesar.” home. They are part of Johan­ Mr. Moss’s interest in the nesburg and though they may Johannesburg City Council. stage has never waned. Today, have cultural links with their With his ability and his among other executive positions tribes, in essence they are men, outlook on life, he will be a in the theatrical world, he is women and children of the worthy successor to two other chairman of the Civic Theatre’s city.” Jeppe High old boys who have board of governors and he sees Mr. Moss, who is fluent in been his immediate predecessors and reads as many plays as he both English and Afrikaans, as Mayor — Mr. I. Schlapober- can. thanks to his childhood friend­ skv and Mr. Patrick Lewis. Mrs. Doris Lewis, the Mayoress of Johannesburg, presents the trophy to the Mayoress winner of the W anderers womens’ bowls s in g le s championship, Mrs. Jessie Lum. Mrs. Lum defeated singles Mrs. Doreen Needham in the final. Mrs. Needham The Mayoress of Johannes­ During the past season it has been a common sight at bowling last year went on to win the burg, Mrs.' Patrick Lewis, last Southern Transvaal '‘Cham­ week presented a new trophy clubs for the Mayor to be for the Wanderers women’s present in the blazer of the pion of Champions” title, singles championship. Municipal rink or one of North­ but Mrs. Lum will have the The first holder of the trophy ern Suburbs, and for Mrs. Lewis chance of winning it again became Mrs, Jessie Lum, who to wear her Wanderers for Wanderers this year. beat the Southern Transvaal uniform. “Champion of Champions,” Mrs. Doreen Needham, 21-8. During the presentation, Mrs. Lewis, who is a member of Wanderers, said she had often toyed with the idea of playing bowls but did nothing about it until her husband told her ‘T would be a much nicer person if I played bowls.” As there is a ruling at Wanderers that the name of a donor of a trophy must not be inscribed on it, Mrs. Lewis’s name will not be on the new trophy. Mrs. Lewis said she had not been able to put as much service into the club as she wanted because she had to assist her husband in his public life. § ta r Week-end Magazine JOHANNESBURG SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28 1970

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Dear Olga Price, the heavy leather case when But it harms nobody if, on another “thank you’’ is in petrol or dry-cleaning fluids the. Mayor is called on to the side, we give an occa, order — to the 70 qualified carelessly let into the sewers. The last time I replied wear the Mayoral Chain. He sional nod of thanks. inspectors who guard our Sometimes the men carry to your open, candid and health in many ways. oxygen apparatus but this is also rides in TJ 1, to clumsy whén heavy physical stimulating letters to the ★ wherever the Mayor is going, ★ work has to be done. They Mayor I highlighted as bodyguard to the chain. HOW about, then, a polite work continuously in water Johannesburg's glowing His office is modest but his " Ta ” to the men who catch SOMETHING that fascin­ so that even clothes are achievements and glitter­ the rats? (Pest control cumbersome. responsibility the rich sym­ ates me is what goes on in ing future. inspectors is their proper subterranean Johannesburg Imagine them, then, in bol of civic dignity. Now that I am to quit the title). There’s an important while most of us are peace­ their usual rig of shorts and Mayor’s Parlour on Tuesday job!. I shudder to think fully asleep. We really have “tackies” down there in the I am thinking of the huge ★ where we’d be without them. two cities — the one we sewers in the hot and humid municipal family who con­ Very likely not here at all — tread above the ground and atmosphere from which they tribute to the dynamism of ALL OVER the city and or only very pallidly and the hidden but peopled city have to emerge in winter to the city, to its glow. suburbs, in offices, laborato­ shakily here. beneath the streets. Or per­ meet a freezing morning. To the south and west of haps the underground city They dare not lose their Thousands of them are ries, gardening sheds, work­ Johannesburg, in the sandy should be viewed as the life footing or a 20-mile journey anonymous. Some have shops, garages; in stores, areas of the Vaal Basin, live force of the body above i t might deposit them at Klip- weird, some weighty jobs — medical clinics and clinically wild veld rats which carry The nerves and blood-ves­ spruit waste-water purifica­ from “ Pop ” the pensioner clean power stations; in plague. This fearsome sels are the 3 000 miles of tion works. They rate a cheer for difficult, necessary and libraries, filing offices, typ­ disease is a constant menace sewers and drains, and simi­ at the car park with his as the City Health Depart­ lar lengths of water-mains risky work. cheerful morning greeting, ing pools, swimming baths; ment proves time and again and leadings, gas-mains, elec­ to the awesome computer in a hundred and more when a small furry body is tricity cables and the infinite ★ programmer, formerly of assorted places, are thou­ brought in from the veld. complexity of Post Office science fiction. In the long sands of assorted workers The solution seems rela­ cables. The great under­ THERE are three other tively simple — to ensure ground arteries are the big kinds of municipal workers and lofty corridors of the without whose backroom jobs that the wild rats and our water-mains, 36in. and more whose sudden disappearance City Hall alone are hundreds Johannesburg would not be domestic rats don’t meet and in diameter, and the great from their daily jobs would of doors. Who sits behind nearly so healthy, comfort­ marry. But the operation is high-voltage cable tunnels, as leave us just about helpless them? People whom you able nor content. Without big — eternal vigilance to wide and as high as a — the firemen, the traffic keep a rat-free zone between subway, fitted on each side police and our bus staff. probably never meet — quite a lot of them, in fact, with racks on which the we’d soon be in a pretty the plagued areas and the There is a common denom­ unless they are your next- city. Well, we’ve not had heavy cables are neatly laid. inator in the work of them door neighbours, the plan, mess. rat-spread plague in Johan­ You can enter the main all — the ability to shrug off nesburg in more than 25 tunnel in Newtown and walk ners, the money-watchers, We pay our rates, probably underground eastwards right discomfort. While we fume the legal folk, architect», reluctantly, and believe that years. . . . in our cars at an accident And rats aren’t the only under the central area, com­ hold-up in the homeward surveyors. we have then discharged our threat. Johannesburg is ing out near the motorway at peak, the traffic man is Here’s one of them now! obligation to a City Hall mostly pleasantly free of Durban Street. sweating it out in the hot mioe, cockroaches, flies, mos­ You can — and some of us Have you met, perhaps, the which must now get on with do. Everything underground sun. the shafts of light from tall and courteous gentleman the job of looking after our quitoes. windscreen and chrome They tell me that if we is carefully recorded, point glancing into his eyes. What who Is Keeper of the Chain? needs. Fair enough — up to suffer these pests we usually by point, so that should a life And yet Johannesburg It Is he who solemnly and a point Services for money trouble arise the mainte­ breed them ourselves, or nance men know precisely has produced volunteers to proudly guards and brings in *— a normal quid pro quo. have careless neighbours. So where to isolate a cable, help our . . «... What a close a water-main or find a city! sewer connection with the If I had an armful of roses least inconvenience to the I would give them to those whole system. bus conductors and cheerful ABOUT TO STEP DOWN after his clippies who keep their jobs, their sense of perspective year as Johannesburg’s Mayor, Mr. Lifework and robust humour amid the There are the big sewers wrath of passengers let down Patrick Lewis (right) writes a vale­ in which someone is forever by late buses or cancelled journeying. The foremen, schedules. I delight that dictory letter in reply to Olga superintendents and engi­ there are still drivers who neers know these systems don’t jerk away until every­ Price’s “Dear Mr. Mayor” series. like the backs of their hands body is safely aboard, — and they only get to know workers who help old ladies This time he pays tribute to the them because this is their on and off a bus and who life work. look after little children as if 28 700-strong “family” of muni­ More than 100 miles of they were their own. Would main outfall sewers reach there were more of cipal workers—the firemen, libra­ out more than 26 miles from them. the City Hall to the purifica­ The Fire Chief said, not so rians, health inspectors, traffic cops, tion plants. They must be long ago, and after that inspected, cleaned, and kept dreadful Langlaagte train street cleaners and many others working. Only at night, when accident: “ A lot of people the city sleeps, does the flow still think of our lives as a who help keep South Africa’s larg­ in the sewers fall low enough series of exciting rides and for the men to enter them to clanging bells with billiards est city ticking over. do this vital work. They face back at the base. But a few the constant hazard of being admire our service ...” overcome by gas — deadly hydrogen-sulphide — o r Turn to Page 3. THE STAR JOHANNESBURG SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28 1970 Page 3

(From Page 1.) Sure all these people chose square miles south to the age of one year. Today In feeding nor afflicted by their job! But what of those edge of Bloemfontein, east to Johannesburg the majority many of the infectious di­ Believe me, I am among who stick to it, make it a the Drakensberg, west to not only have their first seases that threatened the the few. I sleep more easily lifetime career from youth to Kimberley, all south of a line birthday but an excellent infant only one generation at night for knowing that the pension? They have a heroic drawn through the Wit- chance of growing into ago. Fire Department with its 24 watersrand Ridge. The vets healthy youngsters. quality. I salute them The Health Department hour wakefulness is ready no all. and inspectors call on some Bouquets by the hundred matter what emergency has brought to heel the I like the definition of 1 000 dairy farmers who have are earned by the doctors The men who carry i/ie dirt away . . . A thankless, dirty job. should present itself, large a total of more than 100 000 scourges of the past. Based happiness by our and nurses who staff our on their record, I think we or small, real or imagined. If “ Happiness is a healthy animals. Bad milk can't be clinics, by the midwives who petrol vapour from the turned into good milk, nor need not be pessimistic population living in a satis­ are on call throughout the either about today or ble. But give a thought to yet licence deadline time, seeing I could write a whole At the end of 12 months. I tanker had exploded during factory environment.” He's can watered milk give the nights, by the district nurses the Langlaagte train disaster tomorrow. more nightworkers, the cen­ the crisis through in the screed on the workers in believe that the most valua­ got the whole truth there. nourishment of pure milk, who visit thousands of Soweto alone — about the ble gift in the keeping of the the consequences would have and so it is that our milk tral-area refuse removers — rueful certainty that next His department surely helps homes, by the health visitors hundreds of them — who year it will be the same old positive jobs of the wonder­ Mayor of Johannesburg is been dire for an enormous us to achieve both health and experts travel these long who in their own time have Crispness the insight he is given into area, but the firemen knew miles to see what's going on can only operate their large- thing all over again. ful people who lift up the decent living conditions. learnt to speak Portuguese capacity collection trucks There are our wonderful ■ spirit and soul of Soweto, the thousands of almost just what they were fighting, down on the farm. and other immigrant tongues Johannesburg people and what the dangers weer. travel a lot. When they see when the city is abed and libraries and superb librari­ who help to create fun and unknown people who make In any city, without the so that they can help the the streets are empty. ans. The backroom work is education and art and sport life livable for us all and These men are trained to Fresh milk constant watch of the Health people. — and smell — the summers in the great cities of New This is the time, too, backbreaking — sorting, and an absorbing interest in W'ho do it with dedication work in the dark because We drink a fair amount of Department, just about and pride they might have to grope Twenty years ago only the York, Rome and London, I when the streets are washed shelving, stacking. The book- a hundred activities and a fresh milk in Johannesburg everything else would fold really poor took their babies and brushed down. Think of selectors must know their fantastic zest for living. When I see the tree-lined through smoke-filled base­ — 70 000 gallons a day. A up. I don’t believe that any feel sure that they come to the clinic. Today the home to appreciate the gene­ the loads of rubbish removed books, authors, publishers, There are 200 people who streets and the little gardens ments where they cannot see colossal effort goes into ratepayer would bat an eye­ clinics regularly have a pro­ from our bus stops, from their public. Books have to concentrate on recreation; blooming along the major a few inches ahead; they ensuring that your daily lid at the fact that ours costs ral health and hygiene in cession of expensive baby Johannesburg, the freshness rugby grounds after a big be catalogued, book-plated, 350 more who are always roads and sidewalks, and the have expert knowledge of pinta is safe, fresh and pure. us more than R4 000 000 a carriages. This is because the match, from our parks and dated, lettered, plastic busy beautifying the African waterfall like an oasis at the chemicals. No cows to speak of are year and has a staff of more and crispness and brightness clinics really know about of our surroundings. pavements, houses and tow­ covered. All so that you and and Coloured places of end of Nugget Street, and We hear the fire sirens milked in the municipal than 1 600. babies and use the newest ering blocks of flats. We are • I can lean negligently over Johannesburg with gardens people promenading at the about 2 000 times a year. area. So how do we get our And the cleanliness. You, Around and about on the techniques of medical Olga, have groused more very fortunate in having the counter and ask with and fruit trees; the social Zoo Lake on a fine Sunday Each could be a call to save milk? This is how. In hot Mayoral marathon of meet­ science; Our babies today afternoon, I am grateful to lives — or to rescue some­ than once in your column willing African workers to perfect faith; “ Can you welfare folk who compassion­ weather and in cold, over ing Johannesburg I have are bigger, stronger, more in­ about the litter louts of do these jobs and White recommend something de­ ately deal with the major all those who plan and create body trapped in a lift, on a roads good and bad, two seen many babies, White, penances of the poor — so that Johannesburg can roof, in a sewer or in an telligent and healthier than Raleigh and Hockey Street in supervisors who often work cent in the way of a veterinary surgeons and Coloured and Black, all the babies of 20 years ago. one of our oldest suburbs, continual night shift for thriller?” pensions and grants, domes­ have, in addition to health accident-involved car. seven health inspectors jour­ enchanting little folk. Here There are the imaginative tic upheavals, lack of money, and wealth, a pretty One thinks also of ambul­ The city's constant care is Yeoville. It is true that in years on end. ney 10 000 miles in our vast Is a fact to digest. Twenty that our new baby will not some places you would think There are still other night and necessary library ser­ of jobs, people injured in face. ance men with the same kind milk shed. years ago less than half of all workers — the lamplighters vices to shut-ins and hospi­ train accidents, widows, To achieve all this we of gratitude and wonder. be crippled by polio nor that the litter bin had never This shed covers 40 000 African babies reached the stunted because of poor been invented, or was invisi­ who are on the go all night tals. There are citizens per­ children orphaned by employ 28,700 people of all replacing street lights that manently or even temporar­ tragedy. Their whole days at races and — now take it easy have been reported as ily unable to take a stroll work are spent under, a — spend R250 000 a day on “ out.” down the road to their weight of sadness. But their running the city. It is your And all of this is just the favourite place, the branch evenings are surely illu­ money, well spent, I believe, smallest cross-section of the library. How welcome is the mined by the fact that they on you. municipal family. librarian’s tap on the door have brought some little There are the licensing and her smiling entry with happiness to a troubled Yours sincerely folk, so patient at motor an armload of books soul. PATRICK LEWIS THE STAR JOHANNESBURG MONDAY MARCH 2 1970 WILL HONOUR. NEW MAYOR Ceremony at S Y -P )R V s / g ' / b City Hall JOHANNESBURG’S Mayor-elect, Mr. Sam Moss, | will be officially installed in office at a special meeting of the City Council tomorrow following a colourful procession through the city. The procession will form in Formal election of the Mayor, I Harrison Street near the Ceno-._.rDeputy-Mayor — ---- - — ----- (Mr. —Alf Widman, ------. .j taph and then travel along 1 M.P.C.) and committees will take \ Market Street to Rissik Street place in the City Council Cham- and the front entrance of the City | her at 2.45 p.m. Hall.— | The outgoing Mayor will then The procession will be headed introduce Mr. Moss to citizens at by. thei U a cadetr~\ 4 band r, v n -1 rof t í thea Jeppe a ibrief___' _ r ceremony ______on _ . _ rthe l ___/—• City ; i . . T THall _ 11 High School, were Mr. Moss, Mr. steps and hand him the seal of Patrick Lewis, the present Mayor, office. Mr. Moss will make a and Mr. I. Schlapobersky, last two-minute dedication speech. year’s Mayor, were educated. The ceremony starts at 1.40 The ceremony will be followed p.m. when the Athlone High band by a reception in the City Hall. will play in front of the City Hall. Cadet detachments, from Athlone, Highlands North and Jeppe High, led by the Highlands North band, will line the route of the procession. The guard of honour, made up of uniformed municipal em­ ployees under the command of Officer D. H. Marx of the Fire Department and led by the Parktown High band, will march from the Cenotaph at 2 p.m. and form up at the City Hall entrance. When the mayoral procession, The Womens Association of St. Marks Presbyterian Church, Yeoville, has given the escorted by mounted traffic Mayoress of Johannesburg, Mrs. Doris Lewis, 54 pillowcases towards a free laundry inspectors, arrives at the en­ service for the aged. Here Mrs. Lewis (right) receives the pillowcases from Mrs. . trance at about 2.25 p.m. the civic Leeman, (left), ivho made them, and Mrs. M. Lundie, president of the Association. Mrs. flag will be unfurled. Lewis is a member of St. Marks church. The public appeal by the Mayoress has so far brought in R1 400—about half what is needed before the service to the aged can begin. s t a r 3 - 3 - 1 0 7 0 , City’s new

Mr. Sam Moss, new Mayor of Johannesburg, places the ! badge of office on Mr. Alf | Wid man, new Deputy j Mayor, in the Mayoral in­ duction ceremony held this afternoon. Assisting them to robe and put on their chains is Mr. H. Jowett ,t ? T A R 3 / 3 A Q 7 o fright), Mayor's Commis­ Man of the people sionaire. He has helped at the induction of 31 Mayors ODAY ONE OF the best among many distinguish­ of Johannesburg. T ed men who have held the office of Mayor of Johannesburg has stepped down. Those who have been oustanding before him have succeeded for a variety of reasons, for being Mayor is a many-sided thing. But Mr, Patrick Lewis has made Boycott his term memorable for perhaps the best of all reasons: he has been a man of the people. His interest in every part of the increasingly cosmopolitan popu­ lation that is today’s restless, thrusting Johannes­ of civic burg, is not something simulated. Ceremonial is necessary for the dignity of the office, but one senses that Mr. Lewis has been happiest identifying himself with those who have most needed help and march encouragement. And most wisely he has eschewed JOHANNESBURG’S 17 a politically active role. Nationalist City Councillors It has not been all success. He set out to see boycotted the procession be­ if he could improve relations between the city and fore the induction of the new higher authorities, and it must be one of his greatest Mayor today. regrets that after the Prime Minister had given his They took part in the blessing to Mr. Lewis’s plan to invite 200 Cabinet formal election of the Mayor, Mr. Ministers, M.P.’s, Senators and senior Government Sam Moss, the Deputy Mayor, Mr. officials to be the guests of the city, Nationalists in Alf Widman, M.P.C., and council the council vetoed it. The need for a better under­ committees in the Council Chamber after the procession. standing remains and grows more urgent. “We never do take part in the But there is reason for special satisfaction: Mr. procession and we never will Lewis will continue his work for Johannesburg in under any circumstances,” said the vital post of chairman of the Management Com­ Mr. Eben Cuyler, leader of the mittee. Nationalist Party in the City Council. “This is a waste of good time and money. We can't keep the buses on the streets and now- some of the bus drivers and con­ ductors will take part in this procession. "We will take part in every­ thing that takes place in the Council Chamber, but not in this circus.” CADET GUARD The procession formed in f Harrison Street near the Caaotapji and went by Market Street tn Rissik Street and the ’-front 0! the City Hall. The ceremony begaA when i Athlone High School band play- I ed in front of the City Hall. The procession was led by IJeppe High School cadet band.- Cadet detachments from Athlone. Highlands North and Jeppe, led by Highlands North band, lined the route. Parktown High School band led a guard of honour of uniformed municipal employees from the Cenotaph. The civic flag was unfurled as the Mayoral procession reached the City Hall. Formal election of the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and committees was held ir. the Council Cham­ ber later. The outgoing Mayor, Mr. Patrick Lewis, introduced Mr. Moss to citizens on the City Hall steps and presented him with the seal of office. The ceremony was followed by a reception in the City Hall. THE STAR JOHANNESBURG TUESDAY MARCH 3 1970

JOHANNESBURG’S new Mayor and Deputy- Mayor were inducted today. As they begin to serve their city in these demanding capaci­ ties, a Women’s Page Reporter talks to their wives — and also to the retiring Mayoress, who has fulfilled her commitments so grac­ iously and willingly. New Mayoress “laying up for a siege 55

A STRENUOUS years of entertaining and being entertained, of fund­ raising and attending meetings, lies ahead for Johannesburg’s new Mayoress, Mrs, Sam Moss of Observatory. A striking redhead — and h h r the youngest Mayoress this city has ever had — she is women enthusiastically looking for­ two pages with ward to what promises to be a stimulating term of office. a feminine angle MRS. SAM MOSS—Johannesburg’s new First Lady, with her three sons, Stafford, Hilliard and Russel. "I’m a bit apprehensive though,” Mrs. Moss admitted. “Being Mayoress is such a boisterous sons of 12, 11 and waste time dashing about overseas for further coming year calls for several demands on her time, Mrs. people in this city. I also 10.” getting them.” training.” changes in her life. Moss hopes to be able to want to work right through big responsibility. Still, I Then she met her husband firmly believe nothing is She laughed. Born and educated in “One thing which defi­ continue helping her hus­ the year to raise funds for impossible as long as you arq Johannesburg, Mrs. Moss did — “we were introduced by nitely will be affected is my band in his contract packag­ cancer research. This is such “My husband says it looks friends” — and that was the garden, on which I spend ing business. a ghastly illness that I feel I prepared to work hard to as if we are laying up for a a course in dress designing achieve your aim, and I have after matriculating — end of her career as a most of my spare time. She has several aims must do something about it.” siege. For the past few weeks designer. Mrs. Moss stressed, how­ had a year’s experience as I have been making sure that “because I wasn’t wild about “The trouble is this hobby which she hopes to accom­ Deputy-Mayoress which is secretarial work.” But Mrs. Moss has found is hard on the hands, so I am plish during her year as ever, that she and her our deep-freeze is well her training invaluable for husband wish to aid all helpful. stocked and that we have “I really enjoyed dress either going to have to keep Mayoress. the busy life she leads. out of the garden for the “I want to meet as many charities by carrying out “This position (as Mayor­ enough supplies of all sorts designing, but there wasn’t “Fashion is fun, but it must their duties to the best of of things — like spare much scope in South Africa year, or wear gloves.” people as possible — and ess) calls for a tremendous be adapted to suit your In spite of the heavy there are so many amazing their ability. amount of organization — buttons for my sons’ shirts at that stage. I reached the personality. I adore simple especially if you have three — so that I won’t have to point where I needed to go clothes — and culottes — and I hate anything fussy. THE STAR JOHANNESBURG TUESDAY MARCH 3 1970 Deputy-Mayoress “on the go all day and all night”

A HOUSEWIFE and learn so many different " Drugs can be so devastat­ teenage son of her own, said mother, an enthusiastic things — which would never ing,” she said sadly. “ They another of my Interests, and that one of the most fright­ I go to all the horticultural tennis player and an ar­ happen if I stuck to a small can ruin not only the addict ening facts of all was that dent theatregoer, an ener­ circle of friends who are but his entire family as well. shows. When it comes to my drugs could affect almost own garden, though . . .” she getic business woman, a normally so . . . so static.” How horrible it must be for every member of society. parents of an addict to have broke off, and laughed staunch United Party When it comes to hobbies, slightly ruefully. canvasser for the forth­ Drugs to live with the constant fear she admits that she does not of their child committing really have much time to Her aim for her forthcom­ coming general election, Like her husband, Mr. Alf suicide in a moment of ing term as Deputy-Mayor­ J ohannesburg’s Deputy- Widman, she is deeply con­ depression. The anguish of indulge in them. But, like ess? Mayoress. her husband who is an “ To help and support the cerned about the growing the parents in this situation all-round sportsman, she is a Several different women? drug menace among young is heartrending.” fan of all sports. Mayoress as much as pos­ people in South Africa. Mrs. Widman, who has a sible,” Mrs. Widman No, Just one — a petite and “ Beautiful gardens are answered. vivacious blonde, Mrs. Becks Widman of Highlands North Extension. “ I love being on the go all day and all night," she said. “ It Just takes a little bit of organization.” Her average day starts at tlx in the morning and ends in the early hours of the following morning. Tiring? " Not a bit Every­ thing becomes a habit" Mrs. Widman explained. "Once you become accustomed to working at such a pace, you just carry on. I don't think I could Just sit still and do nothing. MRS. ALF WIDMAN—always on the go, " Anyway, I find It to and looking forward to an even fuller mlnd-expandlng. I meet to programme. many Interesting people and Charity work was most impressive "WONDERFUL — hirt ex­ hausting,” it the way Mia. Patrick Lewis, the retiring Mayoress, describee her year in offioe. Looking back ever a year ef busy days and nights, of peeked engagement diaries and many handshakes, Mrs Lewia laid there were aev- •n l highlight* rite would always remember, " Publicly, there wee the opportunity of seeing the eeUasa charity work that Is carried out In Johannesburg, This was really Impressive. “ Privately, there was the capping of my son, Duncan, a civil engineer, and the birth of our first grandson.” Mrs. Lewis said her most fulfilling moment was when she successfully launched a fund-raising campaign to bring fresh bed linen to the city’s aged. “Frustrated” “ I was abolutely thrilled, for I have been quietly working on this project for some time. I felt that such a scheme was necessary for so many pensioners who live in dingy backrooms with no laundry facilities.” She hesitated. “ Actually, I began to feel extremely frustrated because I had reached the final stage of my mayoral term and it began to seem as if the project might not get started.” Mrs. Lewis is now looking forward to relaxing on the family farm in the Eastern Transvaal before she re­ sumes her normal routine. & . b. M- ' i / A W o SAM MOSS . 'íh&'ínJ^ílaod/ ^/^/iQya. BECOMES THE 65th Lewis se MAYOR Staff Reporter MR. SAM MOSS, 47, yesterday became the 65th Mayor of Jo­ hannesburg. Three school cadet bands and detachments, members of the city’s municipal departments, past mayors and leading citi­ zens took part in a colourful ceremony lasting two hours, while hundreds of onlookers gathered at the city hall to ! welcome the new mayor. At a special meeting of Jo I hannesburg City Council, the j outgoing Mayor, Mr. Patrick | | Lewis, handed the mayoral chain to Mr. Moss, and the [5 outgoing Mayoress, Mrs. Dons : Lewis, gave the insignia of % office to Mrs. Shirley Moss. Mr. Alf Widman, M.P.C., was elected deputy-mayor and Ma- l jor ' J. Opperman, M.P.C., ; became chairman of the council, f B Cadet bands of the High­ lands North Boys’ High School, Athlone Boys’ High School, j: ^ Jeppe Boys’ High School and i Parktown Boys’ High School , and their cadet detachments j led the mayoral procession I through the streets to the city hall. A guard of honour consisting of members of the municipal departments in full uniform formed up on either side of the red carpet in front of the city hall. NAT BOYCOTT Nationalist councillors boy- . . c . . . cotted the procession, which Mr. bam Moss is inducted as mayor by th e outgoing Mr. Eben Cuyler, leader of the _____ mayor, Mr. Patrick Lewis. National Party in the city eoun- | JOHANNESBURG hct gister- '** -•ggjj^safeai —I------a LT*"-r±wt-a-- c‘L described as a “circus” and 1 middag sy burgemeester vir die “a waste of good time and money" jaar 1970/71 gekies en soos eike > The Nationalists did, howev­ jaar, was dit weer 'n groot ge- er, take part in the formal beurtenis. Eers was daar die . election of the mayor at the seremoniële optog deur die j special council meeting. strate wat soos gewoonlik ’n The meeting started on a sad ysllke verkeersontwrigting ver- note as Mr. Lewis referred to oorsaak het. Binnc die stad- the recent death of Mrs. Jean huis was daar net so ’n same- Durrant, w’ife of Brigadier .Jim­ dromming van mense. In die. my Durrant, newly-elected Unit­ wandelgang voor die raadsaal ed Party councillor for Ward 8. het die vrouens rondgestaan, One minute’s silence was ob- uitgetof soos min — die July is : served. ’n mooi een om hier kers vas After the election the new mayor was introduced to the te hou. Toe uiteindeiik om hundreds of people waiting out­ kwart voor drie het die amp- side the city hall. telike verkiesing begin. Mnr. In a short speech he dedicat­ Sam Moss is toe tot burgemees­ ed himself to the city and ter verkies en mnr. A. B. Wid- promised the people his co-op­ man, LPR, tot onderhurgemees- eration and support. ter. Op die foto het mnr. Moss (regs) so pas sy burgemeester- toga en ketting ontvang. Mnr. Patrick Lewis, die uittredende burgemeester, is bier net besig om ’n laaste paar knopies reg te kry.

m . APPROACHABLE MAYORS. OHANNESBURG has had many outstand­ as recognition for his services in this regard J ing mayors during its short, but hectic, the University of the Witwatersrand decided existence as one of the world’s fastest to confer on him an honorary Doctorate of growing cities. But it is doubtful whether it Laws. has had a mayor as friendly as Mr. Patrick As first citizen he was always ready to Robin Brian Lewis, who yesterday handed appear at short notice in a good cause and, over to a new holder of the office. never lacking in good humour, was able His realisation of the need to communi­ always to generate warmth and goodwill cate with the public made him approachable from everybody. by all sections, both as Mayor and as man. Johannesburg owes a debt of gratitude Unassuming and deeply aware of the need to Mr. Lewis and his wife who supported for Johannesburg to prosper for the welfare him so steadfastly and exercised her own of both White and Non-White, Mr. Lewis full share of charm throughout the “busy took a profound interest in all affairs aimed and tiring year” — as Mr. Lewis himself at the uplifting of all sections. But his described his year in office. We wish them special memorial will be his striving for a a happy time on the “long holiday” they are better deal for our Non-White citizens. And taking. THE STAR J OH ANNESBURG WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 1970 CITY’S W MAYOR

THE NEW Mayor of Johannesburg, Mr. Sam Moss, was inducted yesterday afternoon in a colourful ceremony at the City Hall. These pic­ tures taken by a staff photographer shows some of the people who were there to watch it.

RIGHT. — Mr. Patrick Lewis, Mayor of Johannes­ burg for 1969, led the procession from the Cenotaph to the City Hall in his last afternoon as Mayor. Be­ hind him, still wearing the robes and insignia of Deputy Mayor is Mr. Sam Moss, the new Mayor.

BELOW. — The incoming and outgoing Mayoresses of Johannesburg share a smile at the induction ceremony. Mrs. Patrick Lewis (left) has just fastened the Mayoress's chain around Mrs. Sam Moss's neck.

Mr. Sam Moss is the new i l l Mayor

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ABOVE. — Mrs. Ray Moskovich, sister-in-law of the new Mayor, Mr. Sam Moss, was one of many elegant guests at the induction ceremony. Several hundred people attended a reception in the City Hall after the induction.

LEFT. — Three faces in the crowd — a young White girl, a middle-aged African man and an elderly Coloured woman — listen to their new Mayor, Mr. Sam Moss, dedicate himself to them and the city. Bird’s eye view of the ceremony

Hundreds of Johannesburg fore the induction of the took part in the cere­ bulance Branch, the the Fire Department. people crowded round the new Mayor. mony. Transport Department and It was a very colourful City Hall to watch the And a guard of honour was the Traffic Department scene, as this bird’s eye Four school cadet bands and. formed by members of the colourful procession be­ under the command of view of the proceedings three cadet detachments Fire Department and Am­ Officer D. H. Marx, of shows quite clearly. OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, JOHANNESBURG

RECEPTION IN THE CITY HALL, FOLLOWING THE ELECTION OF MAYOR AND DEPUTY MAYOR : TUESDAY, 3RD MARCH 1970 AT 3.45 P.M.

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"THE STATE PRESIDENT" Proposed by the Mayor

"THE MAYOR AND MAYORESS" (Councillor and Mrs. Sam Moss) Proposed by the Immediate Past Mayor (Councillor Patrick Lewis)

The Mayor will reply and then propose the toast of "THE IMMEDIATE PAST MAYOR AND MAYORESS"

"THE DEPUTY MAYOR AND DEPUTY MAYORESS" (Councillor A. B. Widman, M.P.C. and Mrs. Widman) Proposed by Councillor J. F. Oberholzer, M.P.C.

The Deputy Mayor will reply and then propose the toast of "THE HONORARY FREEMEN, PAST MAYORS AND PAST MAYORESSES"

There will be no reply.

The Mayor and Mayoress, Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayoress and the Immediate Past Mayor and Mayoress will then receive congratulations on the floor of the hall. MAYORAL ENGAGEMENTS ACCEPTED FOR THE WEEK ENDING TUESDAY 3RD MARCH 1970.

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:^Í^ML._231IJgBRÏÏARY 1970; 1st Car - Hattingh : 2nd Car - Culpan : Day off/standby - 1 ! i

Vehicle Inspection T.J.^00

9.15 Myr. & Annual Charity Bowling Day of the Wanderers' Club (Mr. Syme 724-6331 (morning O fficials Northern Jhb. Caledonian Society HO/7; MA/13) only) Rink for the Tom Gibson Memorial Trophy

7 p.m. Myr. & Mayoral Farewell Braaivleis 25 Erlswold Way PDT. Myrs. Function Saxonwold (M.S. 63/ 1) Informal dress. Reef Mayors attd g.

O Myr. to speak 7.05 D/Myr. & O do p.m. D/Myrs.

mE3MJ_m iSEm ByJ270: 1st Car - Cuipan . ^ Car . Day off/standby Hattingh

Mayoral Morning Tea to meet 25 Erlswold Way PDT. reps, of Welfare & Charitable Saxonwold (Myrs. 41-1384. Organisations in Jhb. JO/27) Myr. to speak

•art G allery Committee Meeting Art Gallery (Mr. Sequeiro Joubert Park 724-3369. AA/6) To receive Mr. Loerincz Parlour

D/Myr. & Performance of "Drie Susters" Alexander Theatre PDT. D/Myrs. by P.ji..C.T. B.T.L.D. D/Myr. inactive. (Pta. 76-4922. PE/8/ 3)

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27TH FEBRUARY 1970: 1st Car - Vp™ ph1pv. . Car - Eattingh : Day off/Standby - I 1 Culpan

To receive Cheque fo r the Lang- Parlour PDT. ;í\& ------j' laagte Fund from the Pretoria

A (Mr. Louw Pta. Bantu Advisory Board 82-941. 4S/ll/l6) ------

12.30 Myr. Informal Luncheon in hon. of Mayor's Parlour for PDT. the Editors of prominent News­ Myr. to speak. 12.45 papers in Jhb. (M.S. PE/4) p.m.

2 ^ 'Myr. & Special Council Meeting Council Chamber (M .S.) R. ft c. ^'■J).m. D/Myr. Immediately thereafter Briefing Session of State Cttee. Small Cttee. Room (Mr. Veale X.412 CO/29)

5.30 5.15- í'ïy r^ c^ Cocktail Party to meet the Pres, David Haddon H all PDT. Í6.30^ -Myr 3. of the Chapter of S ..i. Quantity 60 Biccard S t., Myr. inactive. Surveyors, Mr. W.S. Harland, Braamfcntein Lounge S u it. (Mr. given by the S. Tvl. Regional Grant 834-4991 Ctee. of the Chapter CA/6)

5.30- D/Myr. & Reception given by the Myr. & C ity H all, 7 p.m. D/Myrs. Myrs. of P retoria ( c ir . & Mrs. Paul Kruger St. (Mr. de Eaan Pta. L.A.. Cloete) on the occasion Pretoria 29-511. PE/6) of the termination of their term of office.

8.10 ^J^ríCál: S . A. B. C. Popular Symphony Civic Theatre Myrs. Concert. i Mayoral Box (Mr. Botha 22-4167 Conductor / David Zinman SO /7/l) Soloist / Yonty Solomon (Piano) A.T.B.C.

SATim iY , _28TH FEBRUARY 1970: 1st Car - Hattingh 2nd Car - Culpan : Day o ff /Standby Vermeulen

A ll ''Myr. Annual Sprint Regatta of the Wemmer Pan, PDT. Wemmer Pan Rowing Club Pioneer Park, D/Myr. to speak & La Rochelle. present trophy. Car to come to Lounge S u it. (Miss Transport Museum Rennie 40-1211. Gate. TA/24) Voortrekkerhoogte then to 2 p.m . & Presentation of Colours to Waterkloof Air (Adj. Air Force Myrs. celebrate the 50th -Anniversary Force Base Base, ill/14) of the S.A. Air Force D eta ils on f i l e

8 p.m. fo r . & Banquet to celebrate the 50th S.A. Air Force Myrs. Myr. in a c tiv e . B.TA Anniversary o f the S.xi.. Air College Officers’ Force (Maj. Holloway Pta. Mess, 71-2571 X.70. ill/14 Voortrekkerhoogte Map on file .. 3/...... — ■

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9.30 To send off first "Zoo Train" Zoo Grounds PDT. Q. • ^íyrs. (train: running through the Zoo Enter "Yard Gate" (Dr. Cohen 23-7381 for elderly & infirm people) Upper Park Drive L l/8 ). Lounge S u it for Lions Club the Wilds (2nd gate from Myr. +o speak. Jan Smuts Ave.)

3 p.m. Mayoral Church Service of the Sandown H all, R. & C. CMHE. p.n Myrs. Myr. & Myrs. of Sandton, Clr. Civic Centre, (Mr. L ou ttit & Mrs. A.P. Tweeddale, Rivonia Rd., 704-2107. SA/40) followed by Refreshments Sandown

C ivic Service of Myr. & Myrs. Tom H all (Mr. Muller ^p.m . of Boksburg followed by Boksburg 52-2571. B0/l) Refreshments A.T.B.C.

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MONDAY ? 2ND MARCH 1970: 1st Car - Vermeulen : 2nd Car - Hattingh : Day off/Standby - Culpan

Myr. & Rehearsal re Special Council Council Chamber (M.S.) Myrs Meeting for the Election of C lr. & 1970/71 Myr. & Myrs. Mrs. A.B. Widman \ C lr.J a ffe Clr.Opp erman

12.45 12.30 Myr. uuncheon with Board of Directors Netherlands Bank PDT. p.m. for Netherlands Bank Bldg., 81 Main Myr. in a c tiv e . 1 p.m- S t. (Underground Lounge S u it. (Dr. parking) Cronjé 836-5450 UE/4)

8.05 Myr. & Openings Konsert van die Randse Civic Theatre PDT. p.m. Myrs. Afrikaanse Universiteit (Sang- Mayoral Box Myr. in a c tiv e . u itvoerin g deur Hans van R issik S t. B.T.L.D. (44-7151 Heerden) Ra/6 ) 4/...... - 2 -

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2.20 Myr. & Procession from Mayoress' apart­ Harrison St. R. & C. CMEE. p.m. p.m. Myrs. ments (M.S. 43/1) D/Myr. & do do do P u ll programme D/Myr s.. issu ed .

Myr. & 2.45 Special Council Meeting for Council Chamber Myr. to speak. p.m. Myrs. e le c tio n of Myr. & D/Myr. Lounge s u it.

Presentation of Myr. to c itiz e n s City Hall Steps

3.45 Myr. & Reception on the occasion of the City H all to Myrs. e le c tio n of the Mayor & D/Mayor 5 p.m. for the year 1970/71

D/Myr. & do do do D/Myrs.

8.15 8.30 C lr. % Premiere of "She's Done I t *igain" Academy Theatre CLR'S BADGE p.m. p.m. Mrs. I . in aid of Happiness for the Loveday Street (Mrs. Ledgett Myers Handicapped Org. follow ed by Entrance 724-3225. HA/7) Reception B.T.L.D.

| 7.30 D/Myr. & Annual Protea Award Banquet of ¥ anderers' Club PDT. p.m. for 8- D/Myrs. the Soc. of Advertisers Illovo (Banquet B.T.L. or S.D. 10.30 Hall Entrance) D/Myr. in a c tiv e p.m. (Mr. Meyer 23-8417 SO/86)

Officials concerned are to consult the Diary daily regarding any lik e ly amendments to the programme.

Chauffeurs are to check with the Mayor*s Secretary concerning their day off/standby duties.

gn/ jvj 24/2/1970 vIiATION I'QA TnE COi-fERrm/NT OF ÏHE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LANS HONORIS CAESA ON PATRICK ROBERT BRIAN LEWIS ON SATURDAY, 11TH MTCT.,, ~T97Q

Er. Chancellor, I have the honour to present Patrick Robert Brian Lewis ~or ^ne degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.

’-G-J- lr‘ hoftlnJlus 5Um* “ 'I an a Roman c it iz e n ' - we are to ld by C icero was the ancient proud appeal, an appeal which had oft saved men from indignity in the uttermost parts of the earth. Patrick Lewis, who has travelled to"such parts, could well say 'I am a Johannesburg citizen' - though whether in the present temper of the world this w ill save him fro* indignity, alas, may be doubted.

lor Patrick Lewis is the quintessential citizen of this city. Here he was born, here he was educated, here he has laboured, here he has wrought good works, here he has given so many years of that selfless public service that is so often sought and so seldom found.

Mr. Chancellor, this is a small city among the giants of this world, and one not blessed with an abundance of natural beauty. But there are among us those who know the vibrant soul of her and love her. Of these is Patrick Lewis.

Patrick Lewis, who was born in 1910, matriculated in 1923 from Jeppe High School, that distinguished scholastic institution that has yielded so much to the intellectual, sporting and public life of this country and city, and whence so many of the academics of this university hail.

Thereafter he prepared himself for his accountancy examinations by attending the professional courses conducted by this university and he subsequently attended courses for the Diploma in Native Affairs, manifesting so early in his career the special sphere of interest in which he was later to make so significant a contribution. In 193'i Lewis qualified as a chartered accountant and practised in his profession u n t il 1963.

His public service has included holding office as a member of the Snxonwold School Committee, of the governing bodies of the Jeppe High School and Parktown Eoys nigh School, of the Council of the Transvaal Society of Accountants and the Johannes­ burg Chamber of Commerce, and since 1962, of the Board of the Baragwanath Hospital., one of the teaching hospitals of the University. For fifteen years he was Honorary Treasurer of the South African Institute of Race Relations^whose recently retired Director by a happy coincidence we also seek to honour today, and in 19.93 he was eiectod as? one of the ten Honorary Life Members of the Institute. During 1962 to 1963/represented the Parktown constituency in the Transvaal Provincial Council.

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_ T WaS “ tIay’ 1957 ’ that Patriok L=“is first elected to the Johannesburg y ouncil (he was re-elected in October 1957, and in 1962 and 1967), and in 1058 he become Chair™ or the Councils Non-a.ropean Affairs C o»ittee, a position which

19% 1°: 1 r ,U"UOUnly ** hiS — - om c as Kayor ef Johannesburg 9 9- n 1966 he coritributed the fifth lecture in the University series « « s t i n g the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the city of Johannesburg

South' m T nniversary of the founding of the University's predecessor, the

I City - T e l * °V !neE St KÍmbCrleï- In *“ * A "Citv" within ------— p” — °°>,c—’ he modestly pinpoints 1956 as the beginning of a perjo of breakthrough, when the seemingly impossible was achieved";' but his predecessors and collaborators, we believe, win not hesitate to signalise his assumption Of the chairmanship of the City Council's Non-European Affairs Committee a- the red beginning of that phase of civic activity which ended the shantytown period of Non-White housing in Johannesburg and saw the acceptance by the Iced '

Z ^ Z Z °! t ; CSi0nEibillty f°r the creati°n °f « - o f living for the but t. b°PU ’ 1011 °r th° Clty' T,US’ 0f course, has been no single-handed endeavour but the achievement of a splendid tear,, of municipal officers who have been inspire" by u n et ewas's single-handed devotion::, to the uplifting of the urban Bantu and by the

— “d ? “ *d “ " — roads, water suooíy . C3Mnlng Serf CeE- Public schools, medical services, mass Z T J J T orochoo,social welfare services, vocational training centres, 7 . “’ PUD 10 ° r 'leT m i p e r c e n t se c u r ity . Of "The ' C i t y w ith in a C ity" in

p J T . f i T " T aSFeCt'"’ PatrtCk le”le 18 “ Cl1 to — . in the classic Z - '« you seek his monument, look around

,, . , In 'o^orring the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Patrick Lewis, the

i 7 J Z 7 l r ^ ' 3 t r ‘U *° th° ^ OChieVeB,e"t °f «* Johannesburg City Council,

ca-yz of:;: oowetot with z its t 550,000coamittee inhabitants, “d ua as well as* to«» his—- own most - distinguished .1« public service, devoted to the welfare of our Bant,,: co-citise„s.

of J* 1 teVe th° '0 m a T t0 r0qUt'St *° “ níer th0 desree of Doctor L * —-noriG CGUCG* °n Patrick Robert Brian Lewis.

An appreciation record by Miss Mary at Wits. A FEAST of degrees, from the McLarty, former highest doctorates to the low­ liest bachelors’, will be con­ ferred tomorrow, Friday and headmistress and Saturday in the University of the Witwatersrand’s largest member of the graduation ceremony. A total of 856 degrees will be awarded during the three Pro v incial Conn cil days, and among them are two honorary doctorates for distin­ : WE HEAR and read much today | guished Johannesburg citizens. about declining standards of ... English in our schools. It is, H Mr. Patrick R. B. Lewis who therefore fitting to recall that was mayor of the City last year there have been great teachers 53 receives an honorary Doctor of of English in our city and to 1 Laws degree for his work as pay tribute to one of the greatest, Kathleen Brabazon. chairman of the City Council’s She died recently in Johannes­ non-European Affairs Commit- , burg, aged 84, mourned and tee. ] remembered with affeotion by r Mr. Quintin Whyte, the for­ a host of colleagues and pupils. ■ mer director of the South Her teaching career spanned the years from 1921 to within a African Institute of Race Rela­ few years of her death. tions will also receive an At the age of 15, on the death ol honorary doctorate in recogni­ her mother, she took over the ! . tion of his contribution to the management of the family work of the institute. household, consisting of her father; of the Bank of Ireland, | CEREMONY three younger sisters and a I brother. She kept open house L in the heart of the literary and j The graduation ceremony will artistic circles of Dublin. , be at 8.30 p.m. tomorrow and Fri­ BACKGROUND j day, and at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Never before has Wits, con- Her aunt. Susan Mitchell, poetes1 ’ ferred so many degrees at one and assistant editor of the Iris,’' time. Among the 47 higher Statesman, under the distir ^ degrees are two doctorates in guished editorship of George medicine; 14 doctorates in Russell, better known as the ■ philosophy, six masters’ in arts poet " A.E.,” W. B. Yeats, Jack and 14 masters’ in science. There Yeats, the scholastic Purser will be one Master of Education family, other Trinity Professors degree, one M.A. in clinical j and actors of the Abbey psychology and seven M.Sc. Theatre. degrees in engineering. ! Such was the background of her Altogether 320 men and women i own life and the studies which will receive B.A. degrees; 128 led to the M.A. degree in will receive B.Sc. degrees, and modem languages at Trinity there will be 132 new bachelors College, Dublin. of commerce. ; It was, therefore, in character that she was among the first in Johannesburg to build up school libraries and dramatic societies as a necessary part of - school life. She set high - j standards, fighting against the V flowery language beloved of j the young aspirant writer and g T P i R encouraging original thought and opinion. EXAMINER As an examiner for the Transvaal WIT.S HONOUR FOR Matriculation she had great discrimination in recognizing value. During this period, she 1 was one of a group of English teachers who worked with the TWO JO’BURG MEN late Professor Greig on a committee that aimed at im­ proved methods of teaching TWO OF JOHANNESBURG’S most respected citizens receive honorary Doctor of and more satisfactory examina­ Laws degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand on Saturday. They are Air. tion papers. This work influ­ Patrick Lewis and Mr. Quintin Whyte. enced a whole generation of He served for some time in the teachers of English. Mr. Lewis was born in Johan-! Last year he was Mayor of Indian Civil Service before com­ nesburg in 1910 and educated Johannesburg, and one of the ing to South Africa to teach at Physically strong and vigorous, at Jeppe High School. He most popular Mayors the city Healdtown and Lovedale, two of she played games, climbed qualified as a chartered account­ has had. He continues to serve the country’s oldest missionary mountains and, an intrepid ant and is a director of com­ the Council, as chairman of the schools. He also took a teaching driver over once shocking panies. He was elected to the Management Committee. diploma at Rhodes University country roads, spent holidays City Council in 1957 and became Mr. Lewis has a wife and three College. in places as far apart as the chairman of the Non-European sons. He has travelled widely, is Mr. Whyte later joined the S.A. Transkei and the shores of Affairs Committee the following a niember of several Johannes- Institute of Race Relations and Lake Nyasa. year. burg clubs, and is a keen golfer became director in 1948. It is for But Miss Brabazon would best and tennis player. his work in the institute that the wish to be remembered as a In 1961 he was elected to the Management Committee. His Mr. Quintin Alexander Whyte degree is being awarded. home-maker. In Kensington, as Mr. Whyte has attended many in Dublin, she made a home. It interest in race relations spans is another distinguished leader a period of more than 30 years, in the field of race relations. international conferences includ­ became a second home for and he is one of 10 honorary Born in Scotland in 1909 he took ing the Paeem in Terris Convo­ three nephews whose parents life members of the South double first-class honours in his- cation at Geneva in 1967. lived in Tanganyika. African Institute of Race ; tory and economics at the Univer­ He is the author of numerous COOKING Relations. sity of St. Andrew’s. publications on race relations. Here, she welcomed their contem­ poraries and a wide circle of friends who enjoyed the vital­ ity of her amused and amusing j conversation and the food she provided. Someone has said that she took greater pride in cooking a good dinner than in her own acade­ mic and scholastic achieve­ ments. |■ Let this be her epitaph. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The Council, Senate and Executive Committee of Convocation of the University of the Witwatersrand request the pleasure of the company of

at a Garden Party in the University Grounds on Saturday, 11th April, 1970 at 3.30 p.m.

Guests are invited to wear academic dress.

Please reply on the attached postcard later than Monday. 30th March, 1970.

Guests will be received on the terrace immediately in front of the Main Block at 3.15 p.m.

R.S.V.P. The Pubhc Relations Officer University of the Witwatersrand Jan Smuts Avenue Johannesburg

The Council, Senate and Executive Committee The Public Relations Officer of Convocation of the University of the Witwatersrand University of the Witwatersrand m request the pleasure of the company of Jan Smuts Avenue Johannesburg

at a Garden Party in the University Grounds Name (block letters) on Saturday, 11th April, 1970 at 3.30 p.m. will/cannot attend the Garden Party Guests are invited to wear academic dress. on Saturday, 11th April, 1970 < q f ( Please reply on the attached postcard not later than Address Monday, 30th March, 1970. 7 Guests will be received on the terrace immediately in front of the Main Block at 3.15 p.m.

Telephone number University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

The Vice-Chancellor and Mrs. G. R . B o zzo li

request the pleasure of the company of

Dr and Mrs Patrick Lewis

fo r dinner

at Savernake, 13 Jubilee Road, Parktown

Tuesday the 21st April at 7*30 p.m.

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tail itself of Mr. R. Funk lias been admitted a partner ■bility. T he New Books in Papilsky, Hurwitz, Sacks & Co., Jo­ Is amended hannesburg. WILLE’S PRINCIPLES OF SOUTH Je coverage Mr. D. F. du T. Malherbe has been ad­ AFRICAN LAW (6th Edition). T. R. I)ffic.er and mitted a partner in Emanuel Gerson & Gibson. Pub. Juta. 567 pp. Hardback /? 12.50 I m axim um Co., Johannesburg and the firm name Students' Edition R9.75. has changed to E. Gerson, Malherbe & Not far from most South African Ac­ iven to the Co. liareholders countants’ right hands is a copy of Wille’s Mr. W. C. Lindeque has retired from t relates to Principles. It has stood by student and the practice of Vosloo & Lindeque, lility which practitioner alike for some 33 years, and Johannesburg. ; ordinary to attempt to introduce it as a newcomer would be inapt. Mr. J. H. O ’Connor and Mr. S. I. Silver- eipts, tele­ But it deals with the law, which is man have been admitted as partners in equipm ent ever-changing; much has happened in Levitt, Kirson, Gross & Co., Johannes­ mployment parliament and the courts in the nine burg, and Mr. A. A. Cohen has retired the corpor- years since the last edition, and the time from the practice. ike evident was certainly ripe for a new version. Mr. H. O. Littleton has set up in practice irated). All This was entrusted by Prof. Wille before on his own account in Johannesburg. s should be his death to Prof. Gibson, who has des­ iy a corpor- patched his difficult task with commend­ Mr. T. F. Stubbs has been admitted a iresentative able integrity. He has brought up to date partner in A. van der Bijl, Ironside & nere should all sections of the book and extensively Co., Johannesburg. rewritten the section on Personal Rights. rate house- Mr. D. F. Kerswill has been appointed shareholder The original clarity has been carefully Secretary/Accountant of Colemco (Pty) m ploym ent preserved in the writing, and greatly Ltd. iuld record enhanced by the modern typeface and and specify shorter reading line. Full tribute is due Mr. D. L. Rose has been admitted as a nd control to the publisher for grasping how impor­ partner in Fisher, Hoffman, Levenberg tant it is to the reader of technical litera­ & Co., Johannesburg. ture to have an attractively designed page subtle and Mr. G. B. Ross has been admitted as a set before him. m of indiv- partner in Hemphill, Lucas & Purnell, M.C.J. of Johannesburg's most dis­ orporation, D urban. tinguished citizens, Mr, h as claims Cooke, Haldane & Co., of Mooi River Quinton W/hyte (left) and igligence i: have opened a branch office in Howick. Mr. Patrick Lewis fright). cause of S.A. iity to pur Personal They are seen with the the 1933 Mr. D. Strachan arid Mr. W. M. W. Hon, 0. D. Schreiner, raud in the Mr. P. R. B. Lewis has been made a Tayler have retired from the practice of Chancellor of the Univer­ ng the pur- Doctor of Law, Honoris Causa, by the David Strachan & Tayler of Durban. sity, who conferred honor­ University of the Witwatersrand. brain-drain’ under the Mr. V. R. Shames has been appointed ary Doctor of Laws degrees reparation Mr. J. D. McMurchie has been appoint­ Secretary of R. E. Pasley & Co., Ltd., on both men today. Mr. resentation ed secretary of the Metal Box Company. THE “BRAIN-DRAIN” has its origins in student intimi- Johannesburg. Whyte was honoured for Mr. S. Bresgi has been admitted a partner his work as Director of the dation, Dr. G. R. Bozzoli, vice-chancellor and principal Mr. A. G. Randall has resigned as local of the University of the Witwatersrand, said at the gradu­ in Eliasov, Wolf & Partners, Johannes­ South African Institute of burg. partner in Vaughan, Key & Payne, Race Relations, and Mr. Port Elizabeth. His place haas been taken ation ceremony this morning Mr. H. D. Matthews has withdrawn Lewis for his service to the ttion by Mr. T. R. Franklin. Dr. Bozzoli was speaking at the often changed a peaceful expres­ from the partnership of Ross-Spencer, Non-European Affairs De­ last of three graduation cere­ sion of opinion into a “violent 1 Rule & Co., Johannesburg. Mr. P. M. McHardy has been admitted partment of the City Coun­ monies at Wits, this week, which affray.” outh W est as a partner in Greenhough & McHardy cil. together made up the biggest “And when governments sup- j I ;ct from 1 Theron, van der Poel & Kie van Kaap- of Dundee and the firm name has been graduation at the university. press youth, it is the State | Jovernment stad en Crafford, du Toit en Vennote van About 1 000 students were which ultimately suffers by the Pretoria in venootskap praktiseer te changed to Greenhough, McHardy & exodus of the keenest and larch, 1970. capped. Johannesburg. Die naam van die firma Jones. Among those who heard Dr. therefore the most critical intel­ ndm ent of Bozzoli’s speech were Mr. Patrick lects.” is Theron, van der Poel, Crafford en du Die naam van die Johannesburgse firma, Lewis, Mayor of Johannesburg More serious still, he said, was No. R490 Toit. Die nuwe vennootskap raak nie die wat voorheen Steyn & Meyer was, is 74 dated 26 last year, and Mr. Quintin Whyte, the tendency for police interro­ bestande praktyke van die twee firmas verander na Lloyd, Steyn & Kie. Mnr. retired director of the South gation to follow “legitimate criti­ Africa Institute of Race Rela­ cal comments by members of the nie. W. G. Meyer het horn reeds gedurende tions. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Whyte academic staff.” ;gulations— Mr. C. Segal has been admitted a partner 1969 onttrek, en m nr. J. C. Steyn het both received honorary doctorates Dr. W. S. Rapson, research Subscribers’ in Levin, Rosenberg, Myers & Blumberg, ook nou uit die vennootskap getree, mnr. of law in today’s ceremony. adviser to the Chamber of Mines, No. R469 Johannesburg. A. A. Loubser is as vennoot toegelaat. In a strongly worded condem­ warned graduands last night |4 26 March, Die vennootskap bestaan nou uit mnr. nation of student intimidation by that South Africa was losing the Mr. C. Hultzer has retired from partner­ police and by the Government, capacity to teach science effec­ ship of de Klerk & Barclay, Pretoria, and W. H. Lloyd en mnr. A. A. Loubser. Dr. Bozzoli reviewed 10 years of tively in schools. Mr. R. J. Heffer admitted as a partner. ’n kantoor is ook te Randburg geopen. Science teaching had reached R. Whiting enforced academic apartheid. Mr. V. J. Wells has been admitted a Cohen, Le Grange, Bergman & Co. are “Wits, students tried to make an “acute crisis” in South ial member known to the citizens of Johan­ Africa, he said. “Science and Jtice No. Ill partner in Touche Ross & Co., Johannes­ practising in Port Elizabeth and not Cape nesburg that, although 10 years technology seem to be losing No. 2683 burg, and Goldby, Panchaud & Webber, Town as was stated in the March issue. had passed, the academic colour their glamour.” Perhaps the Johannesburg. T he error is regretted. bar was just as unacceptable as hippie and flower-child cult ex­ it had been in 1959,” he said. pressed discontent with condi­ tions which arose with the THE SOUTH AFRICAN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT. MAY 1970 197 VIOLENT technological revolution.” (News by A. Richmond, 47 Sauer He recalled the “violent and Street, Johannesburg.) excessive reaction” which came, not from students, as in other parts of the world, but from police, who “uninvited and com­ pletely unnecessarily, mounted against a handful of students a counter-offensive by armed policemen and dogs, that bore no relation either to the magni­ tude nor to the character of the demonstrations.” He pointed out that experi­ ence in other countries showed that police intervention like this

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